Every year at this time of the year, we have an international food evening at our parish church, and every year my mother makes and serves the food at the Portuguese table, while I help by bring the food to the church hall and setting up the table. Yes, I am Portuguese. My mother and father were both born in Madeira and came to South Africa where my 2 brothers, 2 sisters and myself were born and raised.

Anyways, and every year they have traditional Madeira folk dancing as part of the evening. Now that I got my new phone I decided to record it. Although the people dancing aren’t “proper” Madeira folk dancers, it’s something special to me, as it represents something from where my parents came from and in essence where I come from.

Here are 2 pics I took. One just as the evening was getting started, one later one at night.

And then here’s one of the video’s I took. Excuse the quality, I only realized afterwards that there was a higher resolution option which I could set my video recording to on my phone.

Since my nephew is back in South Africa foMr a little while, we decided to do the tourist thing and go up Table Mountain. He has never actually been up there, so he, my sister and I went up one day, and I got some pictures while up there.

Here comes the cable car to take us up

View from the top of Table Mountain

clearest pic I took up there

Spot the lizard or whatever that thing is basking in the sun

One of the more risky photos I took

Messing about, photo my nephew taking a photo of me

On the way back down